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My Sweet Baboo

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I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I had a lot of interests before having a baby, but now it seems my life revolves around being spat up on. This blog is about my attempts to rejoin the human race, baby boy in tow. Before becoming a human milk dispenser, I enjoyed yoga, cooking, eco home making, running, taking photos, writing, literature, hiking and playing guitar. I am an amateur at all of the above, as well as at life in general.

>> Wednesday, January 6, 2010

We just spent a gruelling hour and a half with a representative from Canadian Mothers Resources and the Heritage Education Funds. My brain is totally flooded with mutual funds, bonds, GICs, shares--for someone who failed grade 9 math, it was NOT a fun hour and a half. Thankfully, though, it's done. We have a registered savings account opened for our Sweet Baboo. By the time he's ready for college or university, at the rate that we are saving right now (and we plan to increase once we have both graduated and entered our careers) he will be $75,000 saved up for school. The best part? We can't touch it until he's 18, so we can't blow it and leave him with nothing the way that my parents did. What a load off!

14) Learn to sew at least well enough to patch something or re-attach a button

15) Take Baboo to see Santa

16) Open an Registered Education Saving Plan for Baboo

17) Open an RRSP

18) Get life insurance for Baboo (because if he develops an illness later in life he could become uninsurable, so getting it while he's a baby will ensure that he and the future family he may have will always be protected)

19) Read ten books (1/10)

20) Go to a film festival

21) See a live music performance

22) Breastfeed Baboo until the end of flu season (March 2010)

23) Take Baboo to the beach and let him feel the sand

24) Visit with friends from out of town

25) Make a charitable donation in my son's name

26) Take Baboo camping

27) Visit with family from out of town

28) Make or bake Christmas gifts

29) Make Christmas ornaments with Baboo

30) Join a Mom's group

31) Secret goal number thirty-one, which is so embarrassing that I will reveal it only after it is completed